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Please suggest Android cell phone.

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:19:30 -0600

Question
Operating Systems
Suggest 1 android phone between 10000 to 14000.

What do you think of Mountain Lion, the next Apple OS X Desktop/Notebook OS?

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:35:04 -0600

Discussion
Operating Systems, Apple, MAC OS X 10.8
Yesterday Apple announced the new major release of it's desktop OS - OS X 10.8, a.k.a Mountain Lion. As I couldn't see anything radical design wise, there are a lot of features borrowed from the iOS, that in my opinion will make the user experience better. Some people consider removing Mac from the name...

How to create recovery partition for system restore?

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:03:28 -0600

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Notebooks, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Windows 7
Does anyone have any idea how to create windows recovery partition? I've seen that pre-configured on some of notebooks, but sadly have never used one nor researched how to do it. I just re-installed windows 7 due to some problems and now I'm looking to create a recovery partition that will be hidden...

Which phone shall I buy?

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:33:45 -0600

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Cell Phones, Operating Systems, HTC, Motorola, Google, Android 2.3, RAZR, Vivid
Canada's carrier 'Rogers' is providing HTC Raider and Motorola Razr for $100. I am having a hard time in choosing a cell phone. Which one do you think will suite me as I am new to Android and I have never used HTC or Motorola before? I have used iPhone though and I love its 'touch'.

The...

does window smartphones fully support C-language(to make programs)?

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:24:51 -0600

Question
Operating Systems, Microsoft
can we make c-programs in these phones??

Why android phones have larger screens and dimensions (than the iphone)?

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:52:06 -0600

Discussion
Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Samsung, Google, Android, Android 2.3, Android 3.1, GALAXY Nexus, Android 4.0
There are some theories why android phones evolved to 4+" displays and that's considered a "standard" size (if not small, considering the Galaxy Nexus and it's 4.65" display).

First being the way android renders the information on the display (same way windows does it) and to avoid text...

Video upscaling software for Windows?

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:28:31 -0600

Discussion
Operating Systems, Microsoft, Windows 7
Hi, can you recommend me a software (video player?) that will upscale films to higher HD resolution? For example, DVD resolution to 720 or 1080. I've seen that some blu-ray players have the option to upscale movies, but can it be done on the PC as well?

What player for android?

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:50:47 -0600

Question
Operating Systems, Google, Android 2.3
Can you recommend me some player for my Galaxy S. If it has more features - better :)

Best Android apps - add the newest apps you think are worth checking out.

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:16:00 -0600

Discussion
Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Tablets, Google, Android
There are hundreds of apps we all might find interesting without even knowing they exist. Let's change that. Just mention your favorite apps here and add the new ones you think are worth checking out. Direct link to the store will be appreciated.

Interesting: Android phones being tracked by carriers. Do you care?

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:19:22 -0600

Discussion
Cell Phones, Operating Systems, Google, Android
Apparently there's a software installed on most of the Android phones called Carrier IQ, which logs the user's activity without users being aware it does so. It seems to be running on most of HTC, Samsung and other mobile devices with very small chance of regular user finding and turning it off.